[Tutor] adding users from a script

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> ugly at times - but it's the first thing halfway resembling a 
> programme that I've written, so maybe all hope is not lost...

Looks pretty good for a first useful programming effort.

> # l, 0, 1 & o omitted so as not to confuse the (l)users

Since you are generating the passwords thats probably good thinking.
If the users were entering them it'd have the opposite effect 
- trying to figure why certain'valid' letters were failing...

> logfile = open('passlog', 'a')
> logfile.write(nomme + "\t" + pw + "\n")
> logfile.close

Just remember to clean up the log file from time to time 
- these things can grow pretty big over time. One trick 
is to generate a filename from the date(passlog20010916 say), 
thus you get a new file each day(or month) which makes 
finding entries easy and archiving old files trivial. 
Just a thought...

>  " The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
>    And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
>    I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. "
>   
>     --Sylvia Plath

Nice taste in poetry :-)

Alan G